John Holden's Capturing Cultural Value: How Culture has Become a Tool of Government Policy
John Holden's Capturing Cultural Value: How Culture has Become a Tool of Government Policy
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约翰·霍尔顿的《捕捉文化价值：文化如何成为政府政策的工具》
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10.1080/09548960500164533
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发表时间：
2005
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影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Andrew Pinnock
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Andrew Pinnock
大西洋两岸文化界越来越多的人认为，必须找到新的、令人信服的方法来重申其重要性。在美国，这是兰德最近一份报告《缪斯的礼物，重构关于艺术益处的辩论》（McCarthy, Ondaatje, Zakaras, & Brooks, 2005）的主题，该报告评估了在支持艺术的争论中支持用工具性方法来解释艺术益处的论点。它提出了一种基于对艺术如何创造私人和公共价值的更全面观点的新方法，强调了艺术内在效益的重要性。该书出版后，每日电子通讯《艺术杂志》在互联网上进行了为期一周的讨论。 com，“艺术有更好的案例吗”。约翰·霍尔登 (John Holden) 的《捕捉文化价值：文化如何成为政府政策的工具》(2004)，由智库 DEMOS 出版，在英国推动了这场辩论。它还提出了评估工具以外的文化的方法，借鉴了会计师的品牌评估和环保主义者使用的可持续发展语言等不同的学科。本简介和随后的七篇评论探讨了霍尔顿小册子提出的各种问题。在英国，识别和创造文化价值的问题一直是关于文化部门补贴合理性争论的核心。新工党的言论通常侧重于文化活动的有益教育、经济和社会效益，文化、媒体和体育部的五年计划“充实的生活”（DCMS，2005）符合这一传统。然而，尽管该部门强调该部门可以带来的“真正的改变”，但它通常未能提供强有力的证据来证明其资金迄今为止所带来的改变，并且忽视了有时被描述为艺术和文化的“内在”品质。埃斯特尔·莫里斯在成为艺术部长后的几个月内就对此进行了评估：
There is growing opinion within the cultural sectors on both sides of the Atlantic that new and convincing methods must be found to reaffirm its importance. In the US this was the subject of a recent Rand report, Gifts of the Muse, Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts (McCarthy, Ondaatje, Zakaras, & Brooks, 2005), which evaluated arguments in favour of the instrumental approach to the benefits of the arts in arguing for support of the arts. It proposed a new approach based on a more comprehensive view of how the arts create private and public value which underscore the importance of the arts’ intrinsic benefits. Its publication was followed by a week-long discussion on the Internet run by the daily e-newsletter, Arts Journal. com, ‘Is there a Better Case for the Arts’. John Holden’s Capturing Cultural Value: How Culture has Become a Tool of Government Policy (2004), published by the think-tank, DEMOS, takes the debate forward in the UK. It too proposes ways of valuing culture other than the instrumental, drawing on disciplines as diverse as brand valuation by accountants and the language of sustainability used by environmentalists. This Introduction and the seven commentaries that follow explore various issues raised by Holden’s pamphlet. In England, the issues of identifying and creating cultural value have been at the centre of a debate about justifying subsidy to the cultural sector. New Labour’s rhetoric has typically focused on the instrumental educational, economic and social benefits of cultural activities and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s five-year plan, Living Life to the Full (DCMS, 2005) complies with that tradition. However, despite its emphasis on the ‘real difference’ that the department can make, it has generally failed to provide robust evidence of what difference its funding has been making up to now, and has ignored what is sometimes described as the ‘intrinsic’ qualities of the arts and culture. Estelle Morris had taken stock of this within a few months after becoming Minister for the Arts: